Observers say monarch numbers are extremely low this year
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September 4, 2016
CHICAGO (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Butterfly observers in Illinois are seeing a phenomenon this year that is playing out nationally: As the monarch starts its near-3,000-mile winter migration from Canada to Mexico, their observed numbers are extremely low.
Chicago Academy of Sciences chief curator Doug Taron tells The Chicago Tribune (http://trib.in/2bMjoQj) the monarch is "the second or third most common species" of butterfly that observers record, but that this year, it's the "seventh."
Taron says this summer has been "pretty dismal" for butterflies in general in Illinois. Observers typica...
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